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by Killswitch 4071 days ago
I had goals and dreams of becoming a professional chef. Even applied for Le Cordon Bleu my senior year in high school.

In the meantime I was tinkering with building websites and learning HTML and that. I built a few sites and one day a friend who taught me told me to put some playboy style pics on my site and it'll attract people to come. Being 16 I was down for looking at hot girls. So I did. Then later he told me to sign up for these "webmaster programs" and put links on my site and I can make money. So I did.

Long story short, Paris Hilton did what she does best and lets a sex tape of herself leak and I got ranked in the top 5 sites when people started hammering Google searching for it and I was doing about $5-10k/week in revenue off that video. I decided after 10 years of running porn sites I'd bunker down and really learn to program, and now I'm a software engineer.

So you can say Paris Hilton is the reason I do what I do.

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Do you still cook?
For myself yes. And while I was building sites I was a cook at various restaurants for 6 years.
This is the most important question here. (Thanks for the giggles it gave me. You made my morning.)